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Hell of a Weekend...
Jun. 10th, 2007 09:37 pmNo, I don't mean that in a bad way. :)
Friday night was a bit rough, as it mostly consisted of pushing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neo_blackwolf to finish up a last school project. Things got better, though.
Saturday am we slothed (yes, dammit, that is a word!) about the house with computer games and reading. In the afternoon it was off to the wild wetness to play the last soccer game of the season. Yes, we were drenched. Yes, the rain slowed to a halt early in the second half. Yes, they lost 6-1. But they had fun, drank hot chocolate and played hard. Neo was really aggressive in the first half, playing as a forward/midfielder. He played goal in the second half and did quite respectably, though not fantastically.
We rushed home to dry. I made Neo take a hot shower just to warm up, since he had been soaked through. My trenchcoat, nearly soaked through (but not quite) took up residence on a chair back in order to dry. Off we went for dinner at Fire and Ice, which was great. This was the first time there for both of us, though we had heard great things about it fromjetshade and sundry others. I ate meat. I ate much meat. ;)
From dinner, off to the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra performance at the Regent Theater in Arlington. A fantastic show. Some of the covers were a bit jarring. Mostly this was when their version was too close to the original and the voice artist featured on that song wasn't quite "right". However, their original music was excellent. Some of their covers were nearly spot on, such as 'Under Pressure' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' (among others) was better than the original (and the featured singer on YCAGWYW worked the stage hard!). 'Mean Mr. Mustard' and 'Because' were also very strong renditions (and MMM featured my friend A.V.). 'Everything's Alright' from Jesus Christ Superstar (URO has done a version of the musical) was nailed. One late highlist was a performance of 'Flash' (yes, Queen's song from the terribly campy movie) with just the right 1-degree-short-of-sniggering cut-ins with the lines from the movie included in the song.
These guys worked really hard to put on a good show and it even dragged an older-skewing audience (I'd say over half of them were measurably older than I am) to their feet to rock a number of times. Neo and I will both be happy to see their show again when next they perform...we got far more than our money's worth.
Today was the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Faire. An interesting concept with boffer combat allowed under very simple rules during the faire. Neo truly enjoyed that. :) I entered the Sword/Shield competition and was eliminated in the second round. Sadly I wound up randomly in the bracket with probably the top two competitors and met one of them in the second round, losing 5-3. I was probably actually third or fourth best out of the 16 fighters...not bad for just getting back into fighting after 5 years off.
Sadly, I did not find much in the way of quality garb for sale, which was a prime reason for attending. Neo and I could both use some costuming. Ah, well, I'll trundle on and find some somewhere. I did get Neo a nice leather pouch.
One large pleasure was running in to Dave D (Dark). I haven't seen him since Dark became a lich in Nero (96?). We always got along well and have plans to meet up and hang out sometime this summer, having traded cell #s. Another joy was a performance by Kendrick von Brumbach, who is always fun to listen to. I missed out on most of the performances between shopping and the competition, but that was worth rushing to from the first round of fighting.
I think I need more weekends like this. Too many lately have been focused on late homework or running errands. A resolution, sir! Now lets stick to it!
Friday night was a bit rough, as it mostly consisted of pushing
neo_blackwolf to finish up a last school project. Things got better, though.Saturday am we slothed (yes, dammit, that is a word!) about the house with computer games and reading. In the afternoon it was off to the wild wetness to play the last soccer game of the season. Yes, we were drenched. Yes, the rain slowed to a halt early in the second half. Yes, they lost 6-1. But they had fun, drank hot chocolate and played hard. Neo was really aggressive in the first half, playing as a forward/midfielder. He played goal in the second half and did quite respectably, though not fantastically.
We rushed home to dry. I made Neo take a hot shower just to warm up, since he had been soaked through. My trenchcoat, nearly soaked through (but not quite) took up residence on a chair back in order to dry. Off we went for dinner at Fire and Ice, which was great. This was the first time there for both of us, though we had heard great things about it from
jetshade and sundry others. I ate meat. I ate much meat. ;)From dinner, off to the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra performance at the Regent Theater in Arlington. A fantastic show. Some of the covers were a bit jarring. Mostly this was when their version was too close to the original and the voice artist featured on that song wasn't quite "right". However, their original music was excellent. Some of their covers were nearly spot on, such as 'Under Pressure' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' (among others) was better than the original (and the featured singer on YCAGWYW worked the stage hard!). 'Mean Mr. Mustard' and 'Because' were also very strong renditions (and MMM featured my friend A.V.). 'Everything's Alright' from Jesus Christ Superstar (URO has done a version of the musical) was nailed. One late highlist was a performance of 'Flash' (yes, Queen's song from the terribly campy movie) with just the right 1-degree-short-of-sniggering cut-ins with the lines from the movie included in the song.
These guys worked really hard to put on a good show and it even dragged an older-skewing audience (I'd say over half of them were measurably older than I am) to their feet to rock a number of times. Neo and I will both be happy to see their show again when next they perform...we got far more than our money's worth.
Today was the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Faire. An interesting concept with boffer combat allowed under very simple rules during the faire. Neo truly enjoyed that. :) I entered the Sword/Shield competition and was eliminated in the second round. Sadly I wound up randomly in the bracket with probably the top two competitors and met one of them in the second round, losing 5-3. I was probably actually third or fourth best out of the 16 fighters...not bad for just getting back into fighting after 5 years off.
Sadly, I did not find much in the way of quality garb for sale, which was a prime reason for attending. Neo and I could both use some costuming. Ah, well, I'll trundle on and find some somewhere. I did get Neo a nice leather pouch.
One large pleasure was running in to Dave D (Dark). I haven't seen him since Dark became a lich in Nero (96?). We always got along well and have plans to meet up and hang out sometime this summer, having traded cell #s. Another joy was a performance by Kendrick von Brumbach, who is always fun to listen to. I missed out on most of the performances between shopping and the competition, but that was worth rushing to from the first round of fighting.
I think I need more weekends like this. Too many lately have been focused on late homework or running errands. A resolution, sir! Now lets stick to it!
